$500 bucks.
You'll put about $1500 into it and have a nice van for a couple grand.

Never get over generous, you still don't know what you are going to find
down the road. The van I purchased two years ago had the heads done 7,000
previously. They still leak. Well, I suspect they do as that engine is
sitting in a storage locker. Replaced with a $1000 used engine.

Do I regret it? Nope, still love driving it.

tim o'brien

>From: Anthony Bailey <abailey@MAC.COM>
>Reply-To: Anthony Bailey <abailey@MAC.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Vanagon prices
>Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 21:13:18 -0500
>
>Hello All, I looked at a Vanagon tonight (southeast missouri, not
>exactly the vw hotspot of the world, nor anywhere close to it) and
>just got off the phone with the owner, he wasn't there where the van
>was at, its at a repair shop and the mechanic "don't do no
>watercooled vehicles" (his words more or less).
>
>Anyhow, its an '85 7 passenger with (according to the owner) a good
>engine (as they just did the heads on it as someone told them that
>the heads were leaking and pushing coolant out the expansion tank so
>they put new heads on it). They went thru the cooling system, new
>hoses, tanks, etc.. The body looks good, but has a dent in the
>sliding door and is a little scratched up in places.
>
>Now the bad news, they had problems with the automatic transmission
>so the owner took it to a transmission place and they worked on the
>tranny. Then the transmission started leaking again so the shop they
>took it to this time said its the seal between the tranny and
>transaxle and that its probably ruined the both of them. The owner
>had it towed to its current resting place until he can figure out
>what to do with it (the mechanic there only works on beetles).
>
>He said to just make him an offer as he's tired of putting money into
>it especially since its his son's vehicle and he's wanting something
>more powerful. I don't want to pay a bunch for this, nor can I afford
>to. But I don't want to get stuck with an expensive van that I'm
>going to have to put a bunch of money into it also. Nor do I want to
>make him upset at me either by offering a bottom dollar price.
>
>Any ideas what to offer?
>Thanks, Tony
>-----
>Sent from Anthony Bailey KC0HZP (mailto: abailey@mac.com)
>on a PowerComputing PowerBase 180 in Marble Hill, Missouri

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